Rahul Sapra
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of English
Toronto, Ontario
rsapra@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 556140
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Before joining Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) in 2005, Dr. Rahul Sapra worked as a Permanent Lecturer (Tenured) in the University of Delhi (SGTB Khalsa College). In India he also worked as a free-lance journalist and published for The Statesman, The Pioneer, and Encyclopedia B...
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Bio/Research
Before joining Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) in 2005, Dr. Rahul Sapra worked as a Permanent Lecturer (Tenured) in the University of Delhi (SGTB Khalsa College). In India he also worked as a free-lance journalist and published for The Statesman, The Pioneer, and Encyclopedia Britannica. He received his PhD at Queen’s University, where he was also awarded a Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Sapra’s research interests include Early-Modern/Renaissance Literatures, Shakespearean Drama and Performance, Film Studies, Literary Theory, and Postcolonial Studies. His book, The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India, provides alternatives to Edward Said’s discourse of “Orientalism” by challenging recent postcolonial readings of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European, primarily English, travel narratives, and other texts such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Dryden’s Aureng-Zebe. The book exposes the ahistorical and essentialist tendencies in the works of theorists such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Kate Teltscher and others. The Limits of Orientalism has been praised for making “a useful contribution to the revisionist assault on Said's Orientalism” (Times Literary Supplement). Dr. Sapra is currently the Subject Editor of the Film Section of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
Dr. Sapra was the President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) from July 2019 to June 2021. OCUFA represents 17,000 faculty and academic librarians in 30 Faculty Associations across Ontario. He was the Vice-President of OCUFA from July 2017 to June 2019, and he is currently serving as Past-President on the OCUFA Executive. He was Vice-President (External) of the Ryerson Faculty Association (RFA) from 2014 to 2018.
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Dr. Sapra was the President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) from July 2019 to June 2021. OCUFA represents 17,000 faculty and academic librarians in 30 Faculty Associations across Ontario. He was the Vice-President of OCUFA from July 2017 to June 2019, and he is currently serving as Past-President on the OCUFA Executive. He was Vice-President (External) of the Ryerson Faculty Association (RFA) from 2014 to 2018.
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